The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3, sentence 18
‘Carry this box to my castle, and place it upon the table in my own room.
Who acts: you · What happens: carry · To what, where: box, own room
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Carry | punct |
| 2 | Carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 box | det |
| 4 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Carry | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 castle | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 castle | nmod:poss |
| 7 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Carry | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 place | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 place | cc |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Carry | obl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Carry | obj |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 table | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 table | det |
| 14 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Carry | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 room | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 room | nmod:poss |
| 17 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 room | amod |
| 18 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Carry | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Carry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | imperative | you not said here | this box | my own room | to my castle; upon the table; place obl | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme box=Beneficiary it=Value |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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